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Tearing Down Walls. Building Up Hope. From the Office of the Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches For Immediate Release: 24 February 2011 MCC Celebrates Obama Administration Decision on the Defense of Marriage Act And Calls for Continued Action Metropolitan Community … Continued

From the Office of the Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches For Immediate Release: 12 October 2012 Metropolitan Community Church Confirms Removal of Filipino Pastor Officials of Metropolitan Community Churches released a decision on a request for an appeal which confirmed the … Continued

Help Us Recruit Candidates. . .for the Governing Board!!! Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches Today we are publishing information about the Board Charter and qualifications for service on the Governing Board. During the General Conference in Acapulco, … Continued

From the Office of the Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches For Immediate Release: 6 July 2011 Metropolitan Community Church Leader Responds to Arrest of Brandon Hamm, Volunteer MCC Pastor The Peninsula Metropolitan Community Church recently learned that Brandon Hamm, a volunteer … Continued

You might be surprised to hear that Mike O’Neal, the Republican Speaker of the Kansas State House, is praying for President Obama.

Unfortunately, he’s praying for the president’s death. And he’s exploiting the Bible to do so, circulating an email that quotes Psalm 109: “May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.” O’Neal said of the violent Psalm “At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president.”1

On November 19, 2011, Florida A&M University student Robert Champion Jr. was found unresponsive aboard a band bus after the school’s biggest game of the year. Police ruled the death a homicide from hazing; furthermore, the parents of Mr. Champion, a 26-year-old drum major in the university’s famed marching band, have recently revealed that Mr. Champion was gay. The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), the nation’s largest Black LGBT civil rights organization, is urging the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service (CRS) and Civil Rights Division, in addition to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, to launch an immediate investigation into Mr. Champion’s death as a potential anti-gay hate crime.

We are all asked to sign a number of petitions each year in relation to various advocacy efforts. This petition for H.R. 998, the “Student Non-Discrimination Act, is extremely important for the welfare of LGBT youth across America. Please sign … Continued

Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Executive Director and Board Chair of the Global Justice Institute, a nonprofit international human rights group, on the Obama administration’s new and unprecedented efforts to address the on-the-ground reality of daily life for oppressed sexual minorities in many parts of the world. She is also Senior Pastor at Metropolitan Community Church of New York.